Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy
object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text
files and to do system management tasks (as in perl). It is simple,
straight-forward, and extensible.
Ruby uses two parallel versioning schemes: the `Ruby library compatibility
version' (1.9.1 for this package), which is similar to a library SONAME, and
the `Ruby version' (1.9.3 for this package). Ruby packages in Debian are
named using the Ruby library compatibility version, which is sometimes
confusing for users who do not follow Ruby development closely. This package
depends on the ruby1.9.1 package, and provides compatibility symbolic links
from 1.9.3 executables and manual pages to their 1.9.1 counterparts.